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Dreissenidae Gray, 1840 
AphiaID: 156884

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Dreissenoidea (Superfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Dreissenoidea
Source  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. 2010. Nomenclator of bivalve families; with a classification of bivalve families by R. Bieler, J.G. Carter & E.V. Coan. Malacologia 52(2): 1-184. [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Genus Congeria Partsch, 1835
Genus Dreissena van Beneden, 1835
Genus Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857

Genus Coelogonia Bronn, 1837 accepted as Dreissena van Beneden, 1835
Genus Dithalmia Jay, 1835 accepted as Dreissena van Beneden, 1835
Genus Enocephalus Goldfuss, 1837 accepted as Congeria Partsch, 1835
Genus Enocephalus Münster, 1831 accepted as Congeria Partsch, 1835
Genus Mytilina Cantraine, 1837 accepted as Dreissena van Beneden, 1835
Genus Praxis H. Adams &. A. Adams, 1857 accepted as Mytilopsis Conrad, 1857
Genus Tichogonia Rossmässler, 1835 accepted as Dreissena van Beneden, 1835
Environment marine
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156884
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-20 11:54:45Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2011-04-30 06:57:51Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Dreissenidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156884 on 2013-05-25
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